The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-02
Special Correspondence

III couihe you want sllkf'
"Of course don'tln responded. and his
face fell
"Gentlemen generally wear silk. but we
sell many Of the wooden ones 10 old fashioned
people, be remarked.
LET me see the silk ones,r l said. and he
frightened up
These" ne said, producing an entire suit
OF underwear Of delicate baby blue tint and
woven OF the finest silk, 'are worth $50 set.
You need about four sets. | should suggest
four different tints,n and he whsked out upon
the counter three duplicates Of the blue set in
salmon pink, mauve and a charmingly deli.
cate shade OF green. recovered myself.
MY friend, said | firmly 81 don't know
what led you 10 suppose that am a million
aire or an idiot / am neither want
couple Of sets Of plain, seryiceable under
wear, capable Of keeping up a reasonable
temperature in the carcass Of an every day
newspaper man. Nevertheless. should like
70 look at these pretty fancies. Tell me- how
much does it cost 10 dress a genunodud
The haberdasher laughed.
You want just the sort of things woar
myself, and he satisfied my desires i'm short
order. CAS- for dressing dude. he contn-
ued, that Of course depends upon the dude.
have customers who spend 5000 or 5000
a year To begin with underclothes. He
needs at least four weights and four suits Of
each. Here is an extra heavy silk suit for
mdwinter which costs $50. Il is pure silk.
the finest quality, and is, as you SEQ, hand
/ somciy embroidered up the front Too good
70 wear under the coati Oh, no, though We
have them without the embroidery and not
so finely made for less money. As
a matter Of fact, plain silk under
wear is by no means rs extravapant
as you would suppose. IL Is an excellent
guard against rheumatism, and many people
wear IL on that account alone. Then good
quality silk underyest at, say, SIS. will out
wear three wooleN ones, and you have the
luxurious feeling that the woven silk next
the skin imparts. or course the embroidery
and extra fine finish Of these $50 suits add
nothing to the durability but much 10 the ex-
panse The same is true Of silk socks he
added, producing several boxes containing
hosiery Of yariegated hues. "The acme OF
quality comes at about $ per pair After
| that the price represents fancy work and
runs up to $40 or So. There is a new fad
which IS very comfortable and popular in
socks, whirl consists in having the toes made
separate like the fingers of a glove IL is an
English notion and they are called 'sox.i
/ Black silk with delicate embroidered clocks
or vines and various geometrical patterns
over the instep, and up the front Of the ankle
are most popular for evening dress while the
new shades of copper, almond brown, serpent
green and cedar green, gobelin blue. terra
Gotta and orange red are worn during the
day Solid colors are popular for hosiery,
stripes and dots having about gone out;
though We lately filled an order for young
man for six dozen assorted pairs, with his
monogram worked Oh the instep in contrast
ing colors. They cost him $50 a dozen
might shirts are made Of soft China silk,
embroidered with light blue, red and green
silks They are much more comfortable than
the old fashioned linen ones, and cost from
s. 10 Sl2 piece according to the amount of
embroidery upon them. They are either
snow white or a delicate fawn color, and are
ornamented IN every style, from plain stitch
ing 10 the most elaborate embroidery
"ln shirts embroidery and fancy work il
going out, both for day time and evening
dress The best we can do is fine linen at 50
"A piece. Striped shirts will not be worn this
winter though there rs IA vigorous effort to
introduce large blue and red polka dots on
shirt bos0ms. | think plain white will hold
the popular taste and the worthy haber-
dasher sighed as If some one had done him
a personal injury
He Frightened up, however, as he produced
some handkerchief boxes and displayed their
contents
"Aint they just gorgeousin he exclaimed,
forgetful Of grammar in his enthusiasm.
They were glaring Scotch plaids Red, blue
and yellow strobic circles, squares zigzags
and cross bars in every conceivable hue
made one dizzy 60 look at them.
"These run from 81 to 50 piece, and viii
be worn m the morning Plain white linen
with embroidered monogram i'm white or
white silk, are o. course the correct thing for
evening dress. These things I'm nine eases
out of ten won't wash, 80 a supply won't last
long
"Now how much does it cost TO dress
dudef l asked, repeating my original ques-
ton.
GAS ! said before, 1t depends upon the
dude replied the haberdasher. smiling.
However, We will take an average and see %
/ took slip of paper and pencil and rapidly
jOtted down the items as he rooled them OH:
-Four suits of extra heavy silk
underwear at from so t. $50
suit......................... SID to $40
-Four suits OF medium al from s25
% SO. ....... ...... .......... 100 70 100
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. iooto 100
Four suits Of extra light at from
SO to so. ............. $1,000. 50 to 100
Three dozen silk stockings, va
rious weights, at an average Of
SIS per dozen ................... 40 ~
Neckties for the year round, say
from ..................... -. iOOto go
Blazers, tennis, boating shirts and
other summer wear, would run
from. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 800 to 100
Gloves, from 20 10 100 pairs from 100 to 800
Collars, cuffs, handkerchiefs, etc DO 70 800
Total Observation-Disclosures. 81. $50 TO s2gO
"But that, Of course, does not represent
the extremes" said the haberdasher as I
/. footed ND the figures Wa have customer.